https://github.com/mathiasbynens/windows-1252
A robust JavaScript implementation of the windows-1252 character encoding as defined by the Encoding Standard.
https://github.com/mathiasbynens/windows-1252
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A robust JavaScript implementation of the windows-1252 character encoding as defined by the Encoding Standard.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/windows-1252
- Owner: mathiasbynens
- License: mit
- Created: 2014-05-06T12:54:45.000Z (about 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-10-18T06:56:07.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-15T09:30:03.997Z (6 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://mths.be/windows-1252
- Size: 59.6 KB
- Stars: 45
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 21
- Open Issues: 8
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE-MIT.txt
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# windows-1252 [](https://github.com/mathiasbynens/windows-1252/actions?query=workflow%3Arun-checks) [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/windows-1252)
_windows-1252_ is a robust JavaScript implementation of [the windows-1252 character encoding as defined by the Encoding Standard](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#windows-1252).
This encoding is known under the following names: ansi_x3.4-1968, ascii, cp1252, cp819, csisolatin1, ibm819, iso-8859-1, iso-ir-100, iso8859-1, iso88591, iso_8859-1, iso_8859-1:1987, l1, latin1, us-ascii, windows-1252, and x-cp1252.
## Installation
Via [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/):
```bash
npm install windows-1252
```
In a browser or in [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/):
```js
import {encode, decode, labels} from 'windows-1252';
// or…
import * as windows1252 from 'windows-1252';
```
## API
### `windows1252.labels`
An array of strings, each representing a [label](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#label) for this encoding.
### `windows1252.encode(input, options)`
This function takes a plain text string (the `input` parameter) and encodes it according to windows-1252. The return value is an environment-agnostic `Uint16Array` of which each element represents an octet as per windows-1252.
```js
const encodedData = windows1252.encode(text);
```
The optional `options` object and its `mode` property can be used to set the error mode. The two available error modes are `'fatal'` (the default) or `'replacement'`. (Note: This differs from [the spec](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#error-mode), which recognizes “fatal” and HTML” modes for encoders. The reason behind this difference is that the spec algorithm is aimed at producing HTML, whereas this library encodes into an environment-agnostic `Uint16Array` of bytes.)
```js
const encodedData = windows1252.encode(text, {
mode: 'replacement'
});
// If `text` contains a symbol that cannot be represented in windows-1252,
// instead of throwing an error, it becomes 0xFFFD.
```
### `windows1252.decode(input, options)`
This function decodes `input` according to windows-1252. The `input` parameter can either be a `Uint16Array` of which each element represents an octet as per windows-1252, or a ‘byte string’ (i.e. a string of which each item represents an octet as per windows-1252).
```js
const text = windows1252.decode(encodedData);
```
The optional `options` object and its `mode` property can be used to set the [error mode](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#error-mode). For decoding, the error mode can be `'replacement'` (the default) or `'fatal'`.
```js
const text = windows1252.decode(encodedData, {
mode: 'fatal'
});
// If `encodedData` contains an invalid byte for the windows-1252 encoding,
// instead of replacing it with U+FFFD in the output, an error is thrown.
```
## Notes
[Similar modules for other single-byte legacy encodings are available.](https://www.npmjs.com/browse/keyword/legacy-encoding)
## Author
| [](https://twitter.com/mathias "Follow @mathias on Twitter") |
|---|
| [Mathias Bynens](https://mathiasbynens.be/) |
## License
_windows-1252_ is available under the [MIT](https://mths.be/mit) license.